And the wayThough discontinuous, and intermittent, sometimes...Not heard of for years at a time, did,Nonetheless, move up, although, to his surpriseIt was inside the house,And always getting narrower.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And we may be led, then, upward through morePowerful forms of poetry, past columns...With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, bloomsUnhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Since childhood, I have been enchanted by the fact and the symbolism of the right hand and the left--the one the doer, the other t...he dreamer. The right is order and lawfulness, le droit. Its beauties are those of geometry and taut implication. Reaching for knowledge with the right hand is science. Yet to say only that much of science is to overlook one of its excitements, for the great hypotheses of science are gifts carried in the right hand. Of the left hand we say that it is awkward and, while it has been proposed that art students can seduce their proper hand to more expressiveness by drawing first with the left, we nonetheless suspect this function. The French speak of the illegitimate descendent as being à main gauche, and, though the heart is virtually at the center of the thoracic cavity, we listen for it on the left. Sentiment, intuition, bastardy. And should we say that reaching for knowledge with the left hand is art? Again it is not enough, for as surely as the recital of a daydream differs from the well-wrought tale, there is a barrier between undisciplined fantasy and art. To climb the barrier requires a right hand adept at technique and artifice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Well, something for a snowstorm to have shownThe country's singing strength thus brought together,...That though repressed and moody with the weatherWas nonetheless there ready to be freedAnd sing the wild flowers up from root and seed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Commencement oratory ... must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm... opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The most condensed format of the conversionist motif is the TV commercial, which has become essential to both network and religiou...s broadcasting. Embedded in its structure are sentiments from our religious and political heritage: salvation and choice. Newness of life can now be associated with a change of heart about politics, the purchase of a new car, or the selection of a beverage. A Pepsi commercial, for example, designed to fit the charismatic personality and gifts of singer Michael Jackson, became an invitation to make a decision and join in. Images and sounds of the soft-drink ad drew viewers into a growing throng of happy, dancing people following the steps of a dynamic cultural hero. Even couch potatoes might have been roused, vicariously at least, to skip lightly behind the agile Jackson as he led his ecstatic followers to the right choice. The conversionist call in this instance is to come on up to the good life through Pepsi. Nonetheless it plays upon the persuasive motifs of turning around and becoming a part of something larger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »